News and Events

 Browse recent news and events from the GW Climate Health Institute.

 

Workers

'As temperatures rise, industries fight heat safeguards for workers'

CHI member and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, and of Epidemiology, Dr. David Michaels, is quoted in Washington Post article on heat and worker safety.

Integrated framework for Climate Action Planning with Air Quality (CAP-AQ).

'Enhanced Integration of Health, Climate, and Air Quality Management Planning at the Urban Scale'

CHI Director, Dr. Susan Anenberg, co-authored a paper published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.

Pathophysiology of Air Pollution–Driven Disease.

'Health and Clinical Impacts of Air Pollution and Linkages with Climate Change'

CHI members Dr. Anjeni Keswani and Dr. Hana Akselrod, and CHI Director, Dr. Susan Anenberg, published a paper in NEJM Evidence.

farmworker

'Workers face blistering temperatures again, with little federal protection'

CHI member and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, and of Epidemiology, Dr. David Michaels, was featured on a Marketplace podcast.

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CHI members publish several papers on relationships between human activity during COVID-19 and nitrogen dioxide

CHI members Dr. Gaige Kerr and Dr. Dan Goldberg, along with CHI Director Dr. Susan Anenberg, publish several papers on COVID-19 activity and nitrogen dioxide.

NAM Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector

GW Climate and Health Institute joins NAM Climate Collaborative

The CHI is among the over 110 organizations to have joined the NAM Climate Collaborative network to collectively activate all parts of the health sector for sustainable climate change action.

CHI Member Supports Walk Without Worry in Testimony to the DC Committee on Transportation & the Environment.

CHI member and Redstone Director Bill Dietz testified before the DC Council’s Committee on Transportation & the Environment in support of the Walk Without Worry Amendment Act of 2021.

CHI Member Voices Support for Sustainable Food Procurement in DC Public Schools

CHI member and Redstone Policy Director Rachel Clark testifies to the Council of the District of Columbia Committee on Education Performance Oversight Hearing on District of Columbia Public Schools...

panelists

Health in the social cost of carbon: Recent advances to fill a critical gap

Please join us for a panelist disccusion on Health in the Social Cost of Carbon on March 22, 2022, 12-1pm ET with Kevin Cromar, Director, Health, Environment and Policy Program, Marron Institute of...

Potomac and Anacostia rivers are tidal rivers

'Humans are driving climate change but they can also fight against it'

CHI member and Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dr. Dan Goldberg, contributed to a WUSA9 piece.